Burghard Müller-Dannhausen

The approaches experimented with in 2004 and 2005 still have a lot of potential and are further developed. The color sequences, the light concentrates in quadratic form and the unilaterally floating line forms are partially modified in these applications. A constant from these three years is the continual questioning of parallelism which in this case pits the parallel and non-parallel against one another. New aspects in 2006 are a purposely thematic repetition of color areas and area complexes as well as a more pronounced emphasis on spatial inconsistencies through spatial interrelations. These all seem to be criteria of form. But it is not about form, rather merely about color or more precisely about the placement, allocation and organization of color and thus about how they are perceived. In addition to this image syntax, 2006 was occupied increasingly by a semantic question – that of the “energy source”. Is the poetry that viewers extract transported in a form of figurative poetry or does an “energy metamorphosis” take place? In the first case, poetry is translated into another language: poetry from reality becomes poetry in the picture in that a visual association potential is created. In the second case, poetry is implemented by another energy source: poetry from reality is creating energy of evocative image design. The effect of the image reaches the viewer as a ball of energy that suggests a poetic message. Poetry transported in this way may be fresher, more original and -from the point of view of the beholder - more innately inventive. Keeping this in mind, the images from 2006 increase their suggestive potency.